Event

Truman Committee hearings on rubber, 1942

Senate hearings of March and April 1942 on the synthetic rubber shortage and Standard Oil’s agreements with I. G. Farben.

6 links, 6 backed by primary records

Connections 6

Truman Committee held the hearings Primary record 1
Harry S. Truman chairman Primary record 1
Thurman Arnold testified for the Justice Department Primary record 1
Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) its president, W. S. Farish, answered the charges Primary record 1
I. G. Farben the German partner whose agreements were examined Primary record 1

Timeline 1 date

Proof 1 source

Investigation of the National Defense Program: Hearings before a Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program, United States Senate, Part 11 (Rubber), March-April 1942, U.S. Senate (scan on the Internet Archive), 1942. Primary record
Nevertheless, these arrangements were not entered into with any desire to help Germany. The sole motive was an attempt on the part of the Standard Oil to get a protected market, to eliminate independent competition, and, finally, to restrict world production in order to maintain that control.
SPECIAL COMMITTEE INVESTIGATING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE PROGRAM HARRY S. TRUMAN, Missouri, Chairman
Arnold, Thurman W., Assistant Attorney General
any charges that the Standard Oil Co. or any of its officers has been in the slightest respect disloyal to the United States is unwarranted and untrue.

Page history 1 change